The agricultural revolution in prehistory : why did foragers become farmers?
2006, 1st edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #392355
Physical description: 598 p., illus., 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-526) and index. Contents: Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; 1. Approaches to the Origins of Agriculture; 2. Understanding Foragers; 3. Identifying Foragers and Farmers; 4. The 'Hearth of Domestication'? Transitions to Farming in South-West Asia; 5. Central and South Asia: the Wheat/Rice Frontier; 6. Rice and Forest Farming in East and South-East Asia; 7. Weed, Tuber, and Maize Farming in the Americas; 8. Africa: Afro-Asiatic Pastoralists and Bantu Farmers?; 9. Transitions to Farming in Europe: Ex Oriente Lux?; 10. The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers? Subjects: Agriculture, Prehistoric; Agriculture Origin; Plants, Cultivated Origin; Plant remains (Archaeology); Hunting and gathering societies; Prehistoric peoples Food; Hunting and gathering societies; Prehistoric peoples; Origins of agriculture : archaeology; Neolithic period; Prehistory.
Price: €225.00